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1. www.findagrave.com › memorial › 19750232William James Sidis (1898-1944) - Find a Grave Memorial

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   William James Sidis. Birth. 1 Apr 1898. Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA. Death. 17 Jul 1944 (aged 46) Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Burial. Harmony Grove Cemetery. Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA Add to Map. Plot. Harmony Grove 791 P. Memorial ID. 19750232. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 28.

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › William_James_SidisWilliam James Sidis - Wikipedia

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   Sidis died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1944 in Boston at age 46. Writing and research. Sidis's writing covered a broad range of subjects. He wrote about cosmology, Native American history, and rail transportation, and invented a language called Vendergood.

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   How old was William James Sidis when he died?

   • Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. BOSTON, July 17 -- William James Sidis, boy prodigy of thirty-five years ago, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 16, died today in a hospital. His age was 46.

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   Who was Bill Sidis?

   • Bill Sidis was a quiet man who enjoyed the normal things of life. His friends respected him and enjoyed his company. I am glad to have been one of his friends." — Shirley S. Smith, Wellesley Hills And all the while, he adhered to the Okamakammesset principle of anonymous contribution. —Dan Mahony (Click/tap to open, enlarge.)

   Bio of William Sidis

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   How did William James Sidis become famous?

   • Sidis became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. Eventually, he avoided mathematics altogether, writing on other subjects under a number of pseudonyms. William James Sidis was born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants on April 1, 1898, in New York City.

   William Sidis - Jewish Virtual Library

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   What happened to Sidis?

   • Sidis and 11 other persons who were arrested during the May Day riots in Roxbury were given jail sentences, the so-called Harvard prodigy getting a year and a half.

   Boston Herald, May 4,1919 - Sidis

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4. www.nytimes.com › 1944/07/18 › archivesSIDIS, A 'WONDER' IN BOYHOOD, DIES; Graduate of Harvard at 16 ...

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   BOSTON, July 17 -- William James Sidis, boy prodigy of thirty-five years ago, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 16, died today in a hospital. His age was 46.

5. www.sidis.net › BioWilliamJamesSidisBio of William Sidis

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   Boston Herald, May 3, 1919----- "Riot" = peaceful protest. Arrest 102 In Roxbury Boston Transcript, May 3, 1919 . Four Boston Radicals Get Prison Sentences New York Times, May 3, 1919 . Boston Rioters' Cases Disposed Of Bangor [Maine] Commercial, May 3, 1919 . Sidis Gets Year And Half In Jail Boston Herald, May 14, 1919.

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6. www.sidis.net › herald1919Boston Herald, May 4,1919 - Sidis

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   SIDIS GETS YEAR AND HALF IN JAIL. Boston Herald, Wednesday, May 14, 1919. Click to enlarge. Distortion of his likeness aside, this article contains some of his trial testimony. William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal Court yesterday that he is a Socialist, a ...

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   Feb 12, 2023 · Boston Herald started the report about Sidis’s court case in 1919: “William James Sidis, who was graduated from Harvard at the age of 15, told Judge Albert F. Hayden in the Roxbury Municipal ...

8. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org › william-sidisWilliam Sidis - Jewish Virtual Library

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   Sidis died in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage in Boston at the age of forty-six. His father had died of the same malady in 1923 at age fifty-six. Sources: Wikipedia, Larry Neal Gowdy, Was William James Sidis the Smartest Man on Earth? Photo: Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia